[Trombone-l] Sackbutt question

Thu Sep 7 15:28:17 CDT 2006

Much like the trombone, a great deal of the issue is in the leadpipe and mouthpiece.  If you pull the leadpipe, and get a reasonable close or copied mouthpiece, you'll have an instrument as close (or closer) as many sackbuts on the market, regardless.  You can even be a little sneaky with the gooseneck too.  It may not sound like a Mainl Lauber, but it will function much as a Finke or Alexander or Giardinalli (one of the most common Alto's I've seen).

J.c.S.

---- DF Cramer <alto_trombone at hotmail.com> wrote: 
> >From everything I have read in the Historic Brass Journal, several books on 
> trombone and on the sackbut; do not waste the time.  It will not sound 
> anything like a sackbut.  See if you can borrow one from a colleague or 
> school.
> 
> I considered doing the same thing until I read more about it.  I guess we 
> both have to wait to buy one.  Luckily for now, this school has an alto and 
> two tenors that I am going to explore.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Dennis F. Cramer
> Conservatory of Music
> Purchase College
> State University of New York
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> >From: Joshua Hauser <jhauser at tntech.edu>
> >To: <trombone-l at server5.samford.edu>
> >Subject: [Trombone-l] Sackbutt question
> >Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2006 13:02:39 -0500
> >
> >For any of you who may be early music purists, I apologize for this 
> >question
> >in advance.
> >
> >We have a new faculty member here who is starting up an early music 
> >ensemble
> >and is interested in using one or more sackbutts.  Needless to say, we 
> >don¹t
> >have any, but I do have an extra bell for a Conn student model horn that I
> >could sacrifice to cut down if I could find some specs for this kind of
> >conversion.  Does anybody know of anyone who has done this effectively for 
> >a
> >pseudo sackbutt effect?  I¹d love to buy a replica, but those are listing
> >for three to four thousand and I have this bell just sitting unused in a
> >closet.
> >
> >Any (de)constructive suggestions?
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >Josh
> >
> >
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> >Joshua Hauser, Associate Professor of Trombone
> >Box 5045
> >Department of Music and Art
> >Tennessee Technological University
> >Cookeville, TN 38505
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